The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-01
Matters of Industry.
Electricity is now universally used as

Electricity is now universally used as
an explosive agent,
Plane or sycamore wood is commend
ed for Hghtress, close grain and suscep-
tibility of high finish.
BaTnyard plumes are being utilized in
the manufacture of artificial birds, with
which to supply fashions demand.
Dogwood is of close texture, and takes
il fine polish. 1t is often substituted for
lockwood in the manufacture of tool
haudles, mallets, etc.
Bricks composed of cork, sand and
lime. have been made by the Germans,
which have proven non-conductors OF
sound and heat.
Que of the best woods for fuel or to be
used in the smoking of meats, is Oregon
ash. 1t is also easily worked, is tough,
light and elastic.
The first electric railway in operation
on the Pacific slope has been constructed
in Los Angeles, Cal. 1t is a street car
line. three miles long.
Germany manufactures $4,000 real
and 500, 600 imitation meerschaums, and
wooden pipes and clay bowls in great
variety are made by millions.
A railway car is being built of steel
by Boston experimenters. 1t will h
heSted by hot air pipes. A compressible
platform will render telescoplng impos-
siole.
Oxide of iron is found to be an adhe-
sive and durable cement for uniting
iron surfaces. With 1t a joint can be
made that will resist an equal pressure
with the iron itself.
The project of using electricity for
locomotive headlights has met with a
a poor reception at the hands of the en-
gineers, owing to its demorallzing effect
upon their time-pieces.
A deposit of iron, so pure that it can
be used without smelling, has been dis
| covered in Arkansas. The deposit is of
vas: extent, the outcrop being two miles
in length, thirty feet in width, and very
| deep.
When swallows fly low, wet weather
which the swallows pursue in their
| fight are flying lowing to escape the
moisture of the upper regions of the
atmosphere.
Electricity is to be used by French
! inventor in the bleaching of paper pulp
| He will use a solution of chloride oi
magnesium through which the current
passes, removing divers oxychlorides and
thus bleaching the fiber.
The quota of 100, 900 seals allowed by
| the Government to be taken annually
| from st. George and ST. Paul, could be
easily lrcTeased to twice as many with
out danger of determination. Statistic:
carefully compiled by the agents show
that the seals are increasing every year
ard, should nothing happen to drive The
seals away from these islands, there i:
no reason to fear that this rich industry
of the United States will decrease il
value.
AS feat of engineering, the tunnel:
of the st. Gothard and Mont Gents have
been surpassed by a tunnel near Schem
nits, in Hungary. 1t is 104 miles long
about 10 feet high, and broad, 1t hal
taken nearly a century to complete II
and cost S5,O00,OO0. It's purpose is t
carry off the water from the mines. Th,
work has suffered long Intervals of stop
page, once for thirty and again fo
twenty years, and is estimated to effec
an annual saving of $50, 900.
A remarkable piece of mechanism Il
shown in the production of miniature
steamship. 1t Is model of the "City
of Worcester" a Norwich line boat
running from New York to Providence
The model is forty-two inches long anC
ten inches wide and in this small spac,
are shown the complete parts and work
ings of the large boat. The finishing
are of gold and silver, and electricity i
employed in lighting up this minatur,
palace. The operating machinery give
forth strains from the latest operas.